Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Greenland

Just saying... ;) — LlywelynII 03:26, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

appear to have formerly been called Forsoget, but I can't tell which. Any ideas? — LlywelynII 15:59, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

Interesting. Never heard of any town in that area called that. In danish Forsoget means "the experiment".Kuba.greenland (talk) 16:19, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

• This book doesn't seem like an English source but turns out to have English articles in it. The one on "Change and Continuity in Denmark's Greenland Policy" could probably be used to expand several articles.
• This guide to starting a business in Greenland from the local government has tons of (2007-era) data and images. Are Greenland Home Rule Gov't products under copyright?
• A database of Greenlandic images from KNI at the Sisimiut Museum. (in Danish) — LlywelynII 01:58, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
• More photos from the Danish maritime museum (in Danish). Too old for copyright? — LlywelynII 15:31, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

According to Iceland, Greenland could move to use the Canadian dollar? Is that accurate, or just Icelandic wishes? 70.24.251.208 (talk) 12:03, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

It only says that Greenland could; something I never heard before in any Greenlandic or other source.Kuba.greenland (talk) 14:17, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

It seemed absurd to have this as a disambiguation page, so I began fleshing out Greenlandic Inuit into a proper article. Please feel free to add or make corrections. -Uyvsdi (talk) 18:21, 6 August 2012 (UTC)Uyvsdi

Just like to say I joined this WikiProject.Kuba.greenland (talk) 14:44, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Hi everybody. I just created a new page, Hans Egede House. The page needs some work on it ,so if you can please contribute to this stub. Thanks.Kuba.greenland (talk) 15:09, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

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(timestamp may not be accurate) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Another Believer (talk • contribs) 15:13, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

Unsourced since 2010, no hight, no coordinates. Xx236 (talk) 07:31, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

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As I have recently noticed a number of significant articles on Greenland, I have reactivated the project. It may be necessary to include WP Greenland on some of the talk pages where only WP Denmark was included.--Ipigott (talk) 09:35, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

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Hello all, WikiProject Women in Red has a focus on Greenland in June - be lovely to see editors new to the project join us. Lajmmoore (talk) 10:07, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

Looking for opinions and comments at Talk:Inuit#Inuit or the Inuit. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 06:28, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

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The name of the page should be Kalaallit Nunaat. Greenland is the translation of the Danish name, which isn't an official language of the country. There is no justification for calling it Greenland except that its what has been done before. I am part of an Inuit org, and they strongly object to continued English use of Greenland as the default name, when it isn't in its constitution or official language. It would be like if we called Germany "Muteland or Land of the Non-Speakers" because thats how you translate Niemczy in Polish for German. Kalaallit Nunaat should be the page title. 72.142.124.98 (talk) 17:32, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

See WP:COMMONNAME, that policy applies here. Kalaallit Nunaat is not used by the wider public or in sources, if this would change in the future it would be a different matter. Shellwood (talk) 18:41, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

The fact that Germany is called Germany in English, rather than Deutschland, should give you a hint as to why Greenland is still called Greenland. Apart from WP:COMMONNAME, also see WP:OFFICIAL - it doesn't matter to Wikipedia that Danish isn't an official language of Greenland. Wilhelm Tell DCCXLVI (^{talk to me!}/_{my edits}) 07:44, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

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== Greenland and Donald Trump == Can we get some more eyes on the inclusion of a section about Donald Trump in this article. Talk:Greenland#Donald Trump section. Moxy🍁 22:05, 27 January 2025 (UTC)

I am commenting here to get this article (Greenlanders) reviewed by an administrator so it can become assessed. I would be grateful if someone could take the time and assess this article I have been working on hard. 🐝 B33net 🐝 02:17, 7 February 2025 (UTC)

Moved from Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents § Fake invented names for greenlandic locations

 – voorts (talk/contributions) 17:55, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

I know the user Marginataen is banned for other reasons than what I'm writing about here. Several of the edits made by this user requires some one to do a mass rollback or something.

This user have added obviously invented names for greenlandic towns/settlements and locations without sources. These names have no base in reality, so I can see no reason why an editor would add them. It's clearly vandalism and NOTHERE behaviour.

This editor changed:

"Attu" to "Kvindefryd" (which can be translated to "Women's delight" in English) diff

"Ukkusissat" to "Kangerby" diff

The "Upernavik Glacier" to "Vårvig Istrøm" diff which the editor then self-reverts diff

"Upernavik Archipelago" to "Vårvig Øhav" diff and that edit is still the current one

"Kangaatsiaq" first to "Fjeldnæs" diff and then to "Køning" diff and then to "Kønig" diff and then to "Amdrup" diff

The "Uummannaq Fjord" to "Køning Fjord" diff and then to "Fjeldnæs Fjord" diff then deleting it diff

"Kullorsuaq" to "Bjørnlund" diff and then to "Brønlund" diff and then to "Gråbøl" diff and then deleting it diff

"Arsuk" to "Berglund" diff and then deleting diff

The editor also have changed the correct former colonial name of "Ilulissat" which is "Jakobshavn" with a "k" to "Jacobshavn" with a "c" on many articles, one example is this. Even moving whole articles diff

It is correct that the town was originally named after Jacob Severin, but the spelling and name of the colonial town itself was Jakobshavn with a K. The Danish National Encyclopaedia can be used as a source here or the official Visit Greenland website under "Quick facts" here

There are many more of these types of edits. Many of these edits are still "live" and I really can't do manual reverts of them.

194.177.239.141 (talk) 17:32, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

Notified: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Denmark. voorts (talk/contributions) 18:14, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

Tried a few and found no google hits. This seems a problem. CMD (talk) 02:58, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

Sänger seems to have already cleared up a number of these. CMD (talk) 03:02, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

Just those, that immediately sprang in my face, as s/he did the same in deWP. Grüße vom Sänger ♫ ^(talk) 06:13, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

I've reverted up all the items directly mentioned above, although I haven't chased down other edits. IP, you should be able to manually revert most of these, not sure why you might have faced trouble. CMD (talk) 07:54, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

"Mass disruption" or "New user quickly reverting edits" edit filters, I suppose. win8x (talk) 13:24, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

IP originally asked for admins to nuke the contributuons. I told IP that wasn't possible. voorts (talk/contributions) 14:41, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Niviarsiat#Requested move 25 July 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 10:22, 8 August 2025 (UTC)

Started this page earlier in the week after seeing some new articles about it. As the talkpage mentions, it is currently unbalanced. Perhaps some of the pagestalkers of WikiProject Greenland have an interest in expanding it. Thanks. -- Rosiestep (talk) 23:28, 29 August 2025 (UTC)

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To insist that Inuit societies traditionally treated crimes like mass murder leniently comes off as ignorant at best and xenophobic at worst. Unfortunately it's quotes to The Guardian so i dont know if we can possibly do anything about this historical misinformation. For a Naluarqusaaq to be paroled after serving 16 years in a closed prison is not at all in accordance with traditional Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit. Mass murder is itself an grave threat to communal survival yet the article insists that Inuit societies traditionally treated the perpetrators leniently for the sake of communal survival Trade (talk) 13:36, 13 February 2026 (UTC)

I support your removal. This seems like a textbook example of why we should evaluate a source's reliability in context of the specific claim it supports, as per WP:CONTEXTMATTERS. I think most people would characterize The Guardian as a reputable publication for politics and current affairs, but that doesn't mean it is the gold standard for Inuit anthropology. At the very least, a claim this broad should be directly attributed or, better yet, replaced with a more specialized scholarly source. Zzz plant (talk) 14:11, 13 February 2026 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Herjulf Bårdsson#Requested move 13 February 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 07:24, 23 February 2026 (UTC)

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